Man films seven metre dead snake in Brazil

After all, they're a country with two islands that are nicknamed after the large snakes that inhabit them - Snake Island off Sao Paulo, home to one of the world's most venomous snakes, and Ilha das Cobras, off Rio de Janeiro.

But comedian Malvada Pinga has uploaded a video to Facebook showing an almost seven-metre snake found in central Brazil.

Uploaded on Tuesday, the comedian said that nobody in the Masso Grasso city of Sinop knew how the "little snake" had died.

"Little snake" it certainly was not, however - being large enough that it was being kept on a chain.

The Amazon is home to many large snakes - including several species of boa constrictors, anacondas, vipers and other typical snakes - but the largest typically only reach three to four metres, making the snake in this video remarkably large.